[KOB] The first case of voter fraud in New Mexico this election has been confirmed by the Rio Arriba County Clerk's Office.
According to the Rio Arriba County Clerk's office, a voter trying to cast an early ballot in Espanola Saturday was told he had already voted three days prior.
The man told poll workers he hadn't voted. He was then shown the signature of the voter, but he says it wasn't his signature.
Officials say they were able to confirm that the signature on the original ballot did not match the legal voter's signature on file.
Poll workers allowed the man to vote on a provisional ballot, but election officials will have to determine whether the provisional ballot can be counted. Elections officials have no legal means of actually verifying signatures or confirming identification of a voter.
"The poll workers and the Rio Arriba County Clerk's office did a good job in responding to the situation, following all the procedures available to them," said Bobbi Shearer of the Secretary of State's office Saturday, "I have nothing, but praise for their efforts to try to ensure integrity in the election. It is just that under current law there are no means available to poll workers to help them determine if a voter is actually the person he says he is."
Shearer said the fraudulent voter's vote has already gone through a tabulator and cannot be identified or separated from all the legitimate ballots in the machine.
Rio Arriba County also fell under scrutiny just two years ago when campaign workers were caught offering alchol to voters.
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This is the most pathetic distraction imaginable.
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Plenty more ways they can do this in the Land of Enchantment: Bernalillo County man gets 3 absentee ballots of different deceased voters sent to his home, to test the system.
The Bernalillo County Clerk's office mailed absentee ballots to three dead voters, according to an Albuquerque man named Carlos Villanueva, who brought the ballots into the Secretary of State's Office Monday morning.
Villanueva said he suspected similar voter fraud was happening, so he tested the system himself.
He chose three random people from local obituaries, and wanted to see if it would be easy to request ballots under their names, even though the people were already dead.
Using nothing more than their names and birthdates, he was able to get the Bernalillo Co. Clerk's Office to mail the ballots to his own home address, not even the addresses belonging to the people who died.
He said no one at the clerk's office asked him for the dead people's addresses or verification, and alleges that the clerk's office actually changed the addresses on each of the three people's voter ID cards to reflect his home address.
[Daily Caller] On the campaign trail two days before the midterm elections, President Champ went to one of the few places that would take him: Philadelphia.
Campaigning in support of gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf, Champ spoke to about 5,500 attendees at a mid-sized 10,000 seat arena that had to be partitioned off with a curtain to cater to the incoming crowd; a far cry from his former days as candidate Champ, when he filled Denver’s then-named Invesco Stadium in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention before more than 70,000 attendees.
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Tell the big lie and someone might believe it. This election, we have seen the Donks put forth "the war on women waged by Pubs," "accusations that the Pubs are racists and embrace the KKK," and the Pubs are Nazis. These midterms are the Donks sleaziest in my memory but then my memory might be shorting me.
[USATODAY] Voting machines are so 20th century. Shouldn't we able to vote on our smart phones by now?
Here's where a cornerstone of American democracy runs smack dab into the limits of computer science, say experts.
Internet voting is "completely not ready for prime time. The security and reliability issues are significant," says Marc Rotenberg, of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a non-profit in Washington D.C.
Despite that, about 3 million Americans will be eligible to vote online this election, according to Verified Voting, a non-profit that promotes election accuracy, transparency and verifiability.
Most are members of the armed services who are deployed overseas.
According to Dan Wallach, an expert on electronic voting system and professor of computer science at Rice University, no Internet voting systems are secure.
"It turns out to be really hard to build a network system that's hard to break into." JPMorgan, Target and Home Depot have learned that lesson, and they have far more money and expertise available to them than local election officials, Wallach says.
In 2010, Washington, D.C., developed a pilot Internet voting project for absentee voters. As a test, the District held a public trial, inviting the world to try to hack into it.
Within 24 hours, multiple groups had successfully compromised the system's authority.
Election officials have always struggled with problems like ballot box stuffing and vote tampering. When voting is moved online, the number of points where those would want to subvert elections increases exponentially.
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[THEHILL] States have abandoned electronic voting machines in droves, ensuring that most voters will be casting their ballots by hand on Election Day.
With many electronic voting machines more than a decade old, and states lacking the funding to repair or replace them, officials have opted to return to the pencil-and-paper voting that the new technology was supposed to replace. Nearly 70 percent of voters will be casting ballots by hand on Tuesday, according to Pamela Smith, president of election watchdog Verified Voting.
"Paper, even though it sounds kind of old school, it actually has properties that serve the elections really well," Smith said.
It's an outcome few would have predicted after the 2000 election, when the battle over "hanging chads" in the Florida recount spurred a massive, $3 billion federal investment in electronic voting machines.
States at the time ditched punch cards and levers in favor of touch screens and ballot-scanners, with the perennial battleground state of Ohio spending $115 million alone on upgrades.
Smith said the mid-2000s might go down as the "heyday" of electronic voting. Since then, states have failed to maintain the machines, partly due to budget shortfalls.
"There is simply no money to replace them," said Michael Shamos, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who has examined computerized voting systems in six states.
The lack of spending on the machines is a major problem because the electronic equipment wears out quickly. Smith recalled sitting in a meeting with Missouri election officials in 2012, where they complained 25 percent of their equipment had malfunctioned in preelection testing.
"You're dealing with voting machines that are more than a decade old," Smith said.
Roughly half of the states that significantly adopted electronic voting following the cash influx have started to move toward paper.
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Like maintenance of the Interstate highway system. Maintenance isn't flashy enough to garner votes, so it's passed off to the states, who blame the Feds for not providing even more Other People's Money ™.
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Seems like electronic voting opens the doors to large scale voter fraud via hacking whereas paper ballots keep it local and small scale and traceable. Maybe it is just my naivete coming out.
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The mechanical machines weren't much better. Connecticut, for example, "helpfully and prominently" provided a lever that allowed for a party-line vote. Party was in alphabetical order, of course. Write-ins were nearly impossible.
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I liked the test electronic machine Colorado had at the last election I voted in there (2010).
It had a very clear display with very clearly separated choices. It did a review at the end showing what it had recorded the votes as so you could change them, and after you finished it provided a paper copy receipt of what you had voted, the time, voter number and precinct.
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Darth: We have something similar now in Tennessee except that we don't get a printout of what we voted and a time stamp. Seems to work fairly well. I read about a few situations in other states where the Democrat gets the vote regardless even though you vote for the Pub.
[THEHILL] Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... (D-Fla.) predicted Sunday that her party will hold the Senate in Tuesday's midterms thanks to its "superior" ground games in key states.
Debbie Downer has to say this...
"I think we're going to hold the Senate," Wasserman Schultz said during an interview with ABC's "This Week." "We have a ground game that I know [the GOP] would take over theirs any day of the week."
Wassermann Schultz also cited the high-level surrogates working with Democratic candidates on the campaign trail, including former President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... , former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another James Baker ... and Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... .
Noting close poll numbers in key states, she said the Democratic party's advantages are "superior to the ones that Republicans have."
"When we keep races this close, Democrats win," said Wasserman Schultz. And we know how.
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We're going to hold the Senate....door so the Republicans can take over.
I think it is likely the Pubs will win a very slim margin. What they will do with it is anyone's guess. Knowing them, they'll screw it up.
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What as it former Speaker of the House Pelosi said about the last election? Something about taking back the House?
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"We have a ground game that I know [the GOP] would take over theirs any day of the week."
She's absolutely correct about that. And with the advantage that they have all day to haul their people to the polls, whereas the Republicans have to wait until they get off work.
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Does sound like the kind of thing you'd say so that if cheating took you over the top you could just claim the polls were wrong and internal polling was accurate or whatever.
[Washington Post] Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown crushed his Democratic primary competitors and told supporters that the general election would be "a little bit of a molehill" in comparison. In a state with more than twice as many Democrats as Republicans, a poll in the spring showed Brown 18 points ahead among registered voters in a theoretical matchup with Larry Hogan, the eventual Republican nominee. Hogan will take western Maryland and most of the Eastern Shore. Montgomery and Prince Georges counties will go for Brown. Baltimore city will make up any deficit required to turn the majority vote Dem.
But Brown has struggled to combat Hogan's relentless criticism of tax increases enacted by his boss, Gov. Martin O'Malley ...Democratic governor of Maryland and aspiring presidential candidate, known locally as The One-Man Economic Wrecking Crew. O'Malley was elected to his second term driven by union support and near-Stalinesque vote margins in Baltimore city (82%) and Prince George's County (88%)... . While Hogan, an Anne Arundel County businessman, promises to boost Maryland's anemic economy and bring new jobs to the state, Brown has been slow to offer a compelling vision of what he would do differently from O'Malley, whose approval rating has plummeted.
Hogan's folksy manner and we-can-do-better message has resonated with some Democrats and independents, especially white men, and is stirring excitement among Republicans. As the polls grew tighter this fall, showing Brown with only a single-digit lead over Hogan, national groups pumped money into the race, and top political figures lent their support. The Cook Political Report on Friday declared the race a "toss up," with Brown retaining a slight advantage, while Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight Web site still shows Brown as the strong favorite.
If he wins, Brown will be Maryland's first African American governor and only the third elected in the nation. His campaign is in the final days of a massive and expensive outreach operation, making a special effort to mobilize African American voters, a key Democratic voting bloc.
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A Republican person of color? Why hasn't the media uncovered a scandal? Or had Dan Rather create one?
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Anthony Brown was the chair of the task force implementing Maryland's atrocious state health exchange (approximately tied w MN, and MA for 2nd, 3rd and 4th worst in the US).
There was almost no coverage of this during the primary and still is almost no coverage of this. Brown has gotten a complete pass on it.
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If he wins, Brown will be Maryland's first African American governor
yeah, how'd that other "historic first" turn out for America?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[KOB] The first case of voter fraud in New Mexico this election has been confirmed by the Rio Arriba County Clerk's Office.
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